Housing Speculation and Entrepreneurship

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Xuan Tian

Tsinghua University - PBC School of Finance

Yichu Wang

Tsinghua University - PBC School of Finance

Date Written: May 1, 2022

Abstract

We document a speculation channel through which house market booms negatively affect entrepreneurship. To address endogeneity concerns, we exploit plausibly exogenous variation in house prices generated by staggered and unintended policy spillovers in China. We find house market speculation triggered by house booms crowds out entrepreneurship. Reduced labor supply and heighted entry costs do not appear to explain our findings. The negative effect exhibits in the OECD countries as well. Our paper complements the well-documented collateral channel by offering novel evidence on a previously under-explored adverse consequence of house market booms – their hindrance to entrepreneurship.

Keywords: Housing speculation; entrepreneurship; house purchase restriction policy

JEL Classification: L26, D84; G28; G51

Suggested Citation

Tian, Xuan and Wang, Yichu, Housing Speculation and Entrepreneurship (May 1, 2022). PBCSF-NIFR Research Paper Forthcoming, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4118058 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4118058

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Beijing, 100083
China

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